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Workshop Details

Registration Dates and Details
December 3rd - OETM: Middle School /High School Technology Liaison Workshop - Partnering with our Digital Natives to Launch a 21st Century Student Empowerment and Tech Support Team
December 10th - OETM: Elementary-Technology Liaison Workshop - Partnering with our Digital Natives to Launch a 21st Century Student Empowerment and Tech Support Team
Workshop Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

AGENDA

8:30 Welcome and Introductions

Join

• iSquad / Mouse Squad group

Share (140 verbal characters or less)

• Why you want to start an iSquad in your school.

9:00 iSquad Overview

• Creating a common definition
  • What is an iSquad?
  • Share and post your response.
• iSquad Goals and Benefits
  • What are the top three listed that you are most excited about?
  • What would you add to this?
• Read (comments encouraged)
  • Starting a Student Support Team in Your School
  • 5 Innovative Ideas for Student Teams that Support 21st Century Teaching & Learning
  • Creating Tech Wizards
• Services an iSquad might provide
  • What are the three services you want to focus on for having iSquads provide at your school?
  • What would you add to this?

10:15 Break

10:30 Planning for Your iSquad

• How will you recruit students for your iSquad?
  • Here are some ideas
• What are the three services you want to focus on for having iSquads provide at your school?
  • You can read what other iSquads are doing here.
• Share your iSquad Fact Sheet
  • Read other iSquad Tech Support Team Fact Sheets here

11:15 iSquad Lessons Overview

• Overview of iSquad Lesson Site

11:30 Planning for Your iSquad Meetings

• Explore and review lessons
• Create a Squad plan using iSquad Curriculum Rollout

11:45 Lunch

12:15 Ticketing Form

• Sample Ticketing Form
• Sample MOUSE Squad Help Desk Ticket

12:30 Tech Talk

• Felton Thomas, MOET Tech provides advice about how students can best support your school's ticket incident reports.

12:45 Tech Liaison Meeting Open Discussions

• Reply to the discussion you want to participate in or add a new discussion
• Roundtable Guidelines
• One person designated to take notes should post in the open discussion forum

1:30 Computers for Youth (Leigh Anna Ridge, CFY Program Manager)

• Become a CFY School

2:00 - What Does it Mean to Be a MOUSE School?

1. MOUSE Squad Youth Development Model
2. MOUSE Squad Video
3. History & Growth
4. Youth Development Methods and Tools
a. Learning Cycle
b. MOUSESquad.org
c. Beyond the Help Desk
5. Status Checklist
6. MOUSE Squad Resources

• Training Modules
• Technician Skills Tracker
• Troubleshooting Simulator
• Download, Print or Order MOUSE Squad Materials
• Local Trainings: Students, Faculty & Trainers
• Quizzes

7. Q & A
8. Next Steps

3:00/15 - Wrap Up and Evaluation

3:30 Adjourn